Why didn't Wilford use the back of the train just as a breeding camp?

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In the end of Snowpiercer Wilford reveals that they use small children of the back for manual labour on the train. But if that is the only purpose of the people in the end why didn't he transform the entire back of the train into a breeding camp?



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Well, that's pretty much what it was, wasn't it? The people in the back of the train had a miserable existence, they reproduced and some of the children were taken to perform the manual labor. You can't take all the children, because some need to grow to adulthood to reproduce. You can't kill everyone after a certain age, because eventually they'll catch on to what's happening and stop cooperating. Possibly even mass suicide. Then you have no workers from the lower class to run the train. So you keep it as a breeding camp, without letting them know it's a breeding camp.




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Why are they on a train Snowpiercer?

When scientists tried to cool down the Earth to reverse global warming, Mr. Wilford foresaw that they will instead freeze Earth completely. He then converted Snowpiercer into a 1001-cars-long Ark, which is destined to continually circle the originally exotic railway around the Earth.

What does the polar bear symbolize in Snowpiercer?

Extinction is a repeated word throughout the film. But outside the train, life is actually returning. It's nature that's eternal, and not the train or the engine, as you see with the polar bear at the end.

Who built the Snowpiercer train?

Wilford, who understood what was happening and came up with the idea of an "ark train" of 1001 cars that would allow people to get through the apocalypse. Mr. Wilford's company, Wilford Industries, designed the train to run perpetually, so that it would never have to stop.

How many train cars are in Snowpiercer?

The last remnants of humanity must live on a perpetually moving 10-mile-long, 1001-car train, dubbed Snowpiercer, which circumnavigates the ice-covered globe.



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